The [Youth Opportunities] project is dolling up headstones in St Tobit's Graveyard ... you will have to find your own bucket and scrubbing-brush.... I considered it not unreasonable to encourage volunteers to make a start on some uncle, aunt or half-remembered grandfather.... "This work is not for them," [the Youth Opportunity Expert] cried crossly. "Not a single one of this lot qualify under Section 19B. They are old has-beens pensioned off by the Government to stay at home. And doing it free is completely irrelevant."

A clutch of ball-points clipped into his breast pocket had betrayed him as a rate-collector.